Rose Island, Bahamas

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Rose Island is a small island in the Bahamas that lies Script error: No such module "convert". east of Paradise Island, which lies directly off of New Providence Island. The island has no formal residential infrastructure and no roads. The center Script error: No such module "convert". was owned by Claude Turner for around 36 years up until 2005. The largest mass of the island is made up of a shallow inland lagoon in the center of the island. The highest elevation on the island is Script error: No such module "convert".. The island has a thin peninsula which juts out Script error: No such module "convert". east.

The island was home to a pineapple plantation centuries ago.

In February 1962, the actress, Jayne Mansfield, her husband, Mickey Hargitay, and Jack Drury, a hotel press agent, were rescued from Rose Island after spending the night on a small coral reef nearby. The trio had been marooned after a boating mishap the prior day.[2]

The island's coast was the filming location for the crash-landing of a Vulcan Bomber in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball.[1]

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Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".2. Miller, G (1962, February 9). Jayne in Nassau Hospital; a Case of 'Double Exposure.' The Miami Herald, Page A1, A2Script error: No such module "Authority control".


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